{"id":46397,"date":"2022-08-18T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/brazil-lifts-mandatory-mask-use-in-airports-on-flights\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:06:02","slug":"brazil-lifts-mandatory-mask-use-in-airports-on-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/brazil-lifts-mandatory-mask-use-in-airports-on-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil lifts mandatory mask use in airports, on flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, Anvisa said it continues to recommend the use of face masks and social distancing as they are effective measures to mitigate the risk of disease transmission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the current situation, the use of masks that was adopted as a collective health measure will become an individual protection measure,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Anvisa authorized the resumption of food services on airliners, as well as maximum passenger capacity, but maintained the use of face masks on planes and in restricted airport areas.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, the South American country had registered 34.2 million COVID-19 cases and 682,010 related deaths, with an average of 176 deaths per day in the last week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43708 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/20220818aebd035eec7b4dc49c2116a378135296_35d96337-71b1-4533-9659-5abe783174bb.jpg\" alt=\"A staff member disinfects the Guarulhos International Airport on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 30, 2020.  (Photo by Rahel Patrasso\/Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{BRASILIA, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; Brazil&#8217;s National Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) on Wednesday lifted the mandatory use of face masks in Brazilian airports and on flights, due to the current COVID-19 epidemiological situation.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46397"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46397"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}